Secretary of Fatah Central Committee: "The women of
Palestine draw from the giving and struggle of the first female Martyrs
of Palestine, and prime among them Dalal Mughrabi and Laila Khaled"

Fatah
Central Committee member: "[Mughrabi was] a daughter of the land who
scattered her soul on the soil of the land of peace and constitutes for
us a Palestinian school for the supreme love of the homeland" "The lady of complete giving for the freedom of the land and man. May her soul rest in our skies, a true rainbow of freedom"

Fatah Central Committee member: "[Her operation] spread
the spirit of victory in the hearts of the Palestinians and struck the
Israeli occupation like lightning... [Her] "soul is constantly floating
in the skies of Palestine"

PA National Security Forces: Mughrabi is "the bride of Jaffa"

Head of Palestinian Women's Union on occasion of International Women's Day: "She killed as many as she killed"

On the March 11 anniversary
of the most lethal attack in Israel's history, the Coastal Road
massacre in which 37 civilians were murdered, among them 12 children,
members of Fatah's Central
Committee praised the female terrorist who led the attack, Dalal
Mughrabi, as a role model for Palestinians. As the anniversary of the
attack coincides with International Women's Day on March 8, some Fatah
leaders emphasized the female terrorist's importance as an example for
women in particular.

At a ceremony honoring women "fighters"
and "creators" held under the auspices of Jibril Rajoub, Secretary of
Fatah's Central Committee, who Palestinian Media Watch has shown is a blatant terror promoter,
Rajoub praised terrorist Mughrabi as "prime among" female "Martyrs,"
and suggested that Palestinian women of today let themselves inspire by
Mughrabi and the female plane hijacker Laila Khaled:

"[Rajoub] noted that the
women of Palestine draw from the giving and struggle of the first
female Martyrs of Palestine, and prime among them Dalal Mughrabi and
Laila Khaled, who succeeded in raising the Palestinian voice high and sounding it for the whole world."

[PNN, independent Palestinian news agency, March 12, 2017]

On
the occasion of International Women's Day, the head of Palestinian
Women's Union, and former Fatah Central Committee member Amal Hamad
seconded this. She stated on PA TV that Dalal Mughrabi was "a role
model" who "excelled in her leadership":

Head of Palestinian Women's Union Amal Hamad:
"Dalal Mughrabi who was a role model led men and stood in the front
line. Dalal established a state inside a bus, and waved a flag over the
bus. She killed as many as she killed from among the occupation's
soldiers, not from among civilians (sic., all of the victims were
civilians). She excelled in her leadership, her pioneering and her
faith."

[Official PA TV, I Call You, March 6, 2017]

On
the same program, the director of a women's research center agreed on
Palestinian women's central role, pointing out three female terrorists:

PFLP political bureau member and Director of the Women's Research Center Maryam Abu Daqqa:
"The Palestinian women created a triangle of horror: Laila Khaled from
the air, Shadia Abu Ghazaleh from the land and Dalal Mughrabi from the
sea."

Fatah
Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi presented Mughrabi as an example
to follow, "a school", praised her for "scattering her soul on the
soil," and posted a photo of her holding an assault rifle:

"Concerning Dalal Mughrabi, a
daughter of the land who scattered her soul on the soil of the land of
peace and constitutes for us a Palestinian school for the supreme love
of the homeland. The lady of complete giving for the freedom of the land
and man. May her soul rest in our skies, a true rainbow of freedom."

[Facebook page of Tawfiq Tirawi, March 11, 2017]

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki also venerated Dalal Mughrabi on occasion of her attack. He said her attack "spread the spirit of victory in the hearts of the Palestinians and struck the Israeli occupation like lightning." He added that Mughrabi had become "a legend" and that her "soul is constantly floating in the skies of Palestine." [Website of Fatah's Information and Culture Commission, March 11, 2017]

At a
Fatah event in honor of Mughrabi and her attack, the stage was adorned
with two large photos of Mughrabi next to the Fatah logo. Speaking at
the event, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki called the
terrorist murderer a "Martyr", "fighter," and "one of the most famous
Palestinian self-sacrificing fighters." [Facebook page of Abbas Zaki,
March 12, 2017]

The
PA National Security Forces honored terrorist Mughrabi with the title
"the bride of Jaffa" in a post on Facebook commemorating "the 39th
anniversary of her death as a Martyr." An image of Dalal wearing a beret
adorned the post. [Facebook page of the PA National Security Forces,
March 11, 2017]

"The bride of Palestine" is how a
branch of Fatah in Gaza referred to the murderer, posting her photo and
her "will" on Facebook, encouraging violence against Israel:

Text on image: "Fatah Movement - East Gaza branch

Information Commission

The will of the bride of Palestine

Martyr (Shahida) Dalal Mughrabi

1958-1978

'My
will to all of you, O my rifle-bearing brothers, begins with freezing
the secondary conflicts and intensifying the main conflict against the
Zionist enemy and turning the rifles - all of the rifles - toward the
Zionist enemy. This is because the independence of the Palestinian
decision-making is defended by the rifles of the revolutionaries [who
shoot] continuously.'"

[Facebook page of Fatah Information and Culture Commission,

March 11, 2017]

Fatah's
Information and Culture Commission posted a long but untrue description
of the attack and its results on its website, claiming that the victims
were all Israeli soldiers when they were in fact all civilians. (See
full article below). The attack was praised as "a quality and brave
operation" that was able to "strike the Zionist occupation in the heart
of its capital," and the attackers were "10 self-sacrificing fighters...
[and] Palestinian hero Dalal Mughrabi." The terrorists went ashore
"successfully" on the Israeli coast because "Israel did not expect that
the Palestinians would have the courage." [Website of Fatah's
Information and Culture Commission, March 11, 2017]

An
article in the official PA daily, likewise full of "alternative facts"
denying that all victims were civilians, presented terrorist Mughrabi as
brave and loyal:

"She was known for her courage, her high national sentiment, and her devotion to Palestine and Fatah." (See full article below).

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 11, 2017]

Fatah wrote on its official Facebook page that Dalal Mughrabi is "the legend that will not die."